Strip the danger out of “Borat” and the injuries out of “Jackass” and you’ve got a bead on “Bad Grandpa,” a fitfully funny, semiscripted “Jackass” outing built around elaborately staged pranks played on the unsuspecting. Johnny Knoxville dons old-age makeup and becomes Irving Zisman, who we meet at his wife’s doctor’s office. “I thought she’d never die.” Innocent bystanders give him a look. At the funeral, a hired black church choir freaks out — a ...

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